Eternity Quotes - Page 20

• A day is a miniature eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Mystery, Miniatures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Infinite Intelligence, Remember

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.324, Library of Alexandria

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• At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Progress, Levels

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• Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Pathways

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• When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

  George Santayana

  Men, Eulogy, Quality

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

  James E. Faust

  Religious, Blessing, Giving

  "Reach Up for the Light".

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• Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Jesus, Ocean

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.158, Discovery House

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• My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Joy, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.60

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• Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

  Boethius

  Produce, Remains

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• If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Summer, Spring, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heart, Tunnels, Swings

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• We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.

  Kallistos Ware

  Heart, Journey, Space

  Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.7, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Technology, Racism

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• Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sacrifice, Wish, Minutes

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• It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Feelings, Paradise

  "Transformation of Evil". Book by Debra Redman, p. 119, January 4, 2010.

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• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Charity, Earth

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• You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Weaving, Inheritance

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• The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Death, Stars, Children

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• Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Sacrifice, Faithful, Sin

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• In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of — moments when we human beings can say, “I love you” ... “I'm proud of you” ... “I forgive you” ... “I'm grateful for you” ... “Whether you win anything or not, you still have great value.” That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.

  Fred Rogers

  Eye, Evening, Made

  "You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor".

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• As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

  Ernest Holmes

  Newness Of Life, Changed, Our Thoughts

  Ernest Holmes (2006). “The Hidden Power of the Bible”, p.158, Penguin

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• What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sticks, Hours, Ifs

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Notebook, Writing, Angel

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• Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life. It will not only bless and guide you during this life, but it will also have a direct bearing on your life throughout eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Important, Church, Bless

  "Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth". www.lds.org. October 2014.

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